If Marriott wanted to utterly destroy Insiders, could they have made a better job than this?

I think the title is self explanatory - So let's pore through the excerement that now represents the Marriott Rewards Insiders site. Because I'll be clear here, Marriott has dropped a pile on us all of elephantine proportions

1. Instead of all the latest contributions on one front page it's now hidden in 2 separate places, neither of which are on the home page. Who thought that was a good idea?

2. Signing is subject to the lap of the gods - yes the old site could require you to click on signin, be directed to Marriott.com, signin to your account, click on community, be redirected to the site and then click on signin again - laborious, but at least you'd get there via an established (albeit moronic) procedure. This now takes the same moronic procedure and adds a game of craps to the process, will you get stuck in a never ending wait to get to Marriott.com? Or perhaps when you click in community and are directed to THE WRONG SITE and hence forwarded, thereby introdipucing another opportunity to get stuck in a never ending loop? And if all that goes well then it's another throw of the dice as to whether you'll be signed in and need to refresh, with the commensurate chance it'll blow you out again. It took me over 10 mins to sign in today. Signing in here is an ordeal.

3. Now click on one of the 2 new "big boards" - Hope you're interested in who likes what and precisely when as likes and helpfuls are given equal priority on the split Big board as contributions - not that you can easily see them, instead acres of screen space is wasted rehashing half the original starting post, really what use is seeing the original come one come all post from Aviation Geeks Unite

And then there's the effect this site has on iPad keyboards making it impossible aft

ADDED AFTER iPad keyboard-FREEZE

What do you know? -QED - my iPad keypad firstly stopped me accessing the numbers keyboard and then froze me out alttogether so what is above is all I was able to type before I was frozen out - those who now me may wonder why I've not been commenting and why my replies have been short - well that's because I access internet solely from my iPad and posts of any length ALWAYS result in keyboard freeze, so better to say nothing or be brief than risk keyboeard freeze AND a chance of ending up SIGNED OUT with the night,are of having to wrestle with the site to re-sign in again.

AND FROZEN OUT AGAIN - Really... this has taken almost an hour to get this far....

Sorry, guys but I'm done - This site is unusable to me, can't see what's going on, can't sign in, can't post anything detailed - A pile of total And heres another big one for good luck, before I'm frozen out - yet again

These views can be toggled back and forth in the upper right corner. From what I can tell it is sorting on the most recent activity as noted in the List view with Date & Time. As pluto77 points out the Box View version reads "last modified by" which is incorrect where that person is actually the author. However the List View correctly names the author. Neither the box view or list view actually shows the last person to modify the content without actually opening the content.

The sign-in being tied to marriott.com login is really bad. This morning it timed out under 1 hour. The process of signing back in seldom works as it should and usually I kill my window, open m.com, login, go to insiders, login again.

i know I'm in a minority that accesses the internet solely via an iPad, but I've got used to the many irritants at flyertalk, thedibb and (boring) legal sites I contribute to - I can make them work and make a reasonable contribution, but honestly, I've wasted so much time only to be frozen out here that it's just pointless, even now wothnthismim fearing being frozen, so have to end here...

When frozen out to re-sign in.....don't refresh. First delete history, then use sign in stated above. If you refresh or attempt to re-sign in, iPad will loop you back and forth between Marriott account sign on.

i rely on my history as a means of navigating my the interweb, and delete only very rarely. The idea of doing so regularly to access this site would require a major change to how I use the internet, especially for my business...

But thanks for the ideas, and yes, Canadian art, what can I say? My wife is Canadian, I'm always prone to sneak it in!!

Don't know your iPad skills, so excuse me if I say the obvious. Go to settings. In General section choose about. Look down list to see what you are running. If not 10.3.1, go back to General and select software update.

When I use my phone, I log into Marriott and then click the insiders community. It is useless going to Insiders 1st. When the blank white screen comes up b/c it logged me out, I close it and go back to Marriott and relog in there, then to the Insiders site.

I'm running 10.3.1, I do keep my iPad up to date as it's my only computer, though I do supply my clerk with a mac, I don't use it myself. I find it very easy to contribute to my usual boards, MRI has always been a little tougher but you folks are worth it! Alas, it's become impossible to meaningfully contribute following the refresh...

I understand you don't want to drop your history. But that's the (known) workaround to re-access the page and prevent freeze up. As for "likes" you sometimes have to tap screen twice (quirk in java) for iPad.

I have an iPad which displays fine. I'm just clueless with navigation. Like somehow the other day I bookmarked the "2017 Upcoming Stays" list, but I don't know where to find what I've bookmarked so I'm unsure if it worked

Agree with seatexan , dont go. Working from an iPad as we speak and all this week. I haven't had any problems I can identify due to the iPad.

However, the login has been atrocious, even with the games that you had to play. However I'm not sure I'd it's due to my clean living or my wonderful personality (nah ) but last night and today I was able to login directly to Insiders without being redirected to the main Marriott site. And the auto logout seems too short, as I was typing in a lounge review and got kicked off twice. Ended up saving, editing to add more (twice) before I could get the review posted. Not a fast typer on the iPad.

And I agree, it's had to see new posts and latest updates on the new format. Hope that the mods are taking notes and forwards our comments to the developers. But hanging in there hoping for tweaks to fix the issues, and hope you do too. Community Managers, are you listening?

Yes, I know...it is kind of like when they changed the original Insiders long ago. It used to be sooooo easy to contribute before they got all fancy. ;-) and I never recovered fully after being part of the insider's group they interviewed about the new(now old) site. But sometimes I do get back on, as I know the people who contribute to insiders are wonderful and so generous in their Marriott and destination experiences.

But oh, how I wish we could go back the original Insiders, Marriott!! But then, sadly, I am not high tech savvy. But I DO love to travel, so when I have time, I will try to figure things out, and contribute when I can.:-)

brightlybob - although I'm confident things can be worked out and we'll have you back in the game,

if by some fluke things go all to pot and you float off into cyberspace, never to be seen again until Tipple 2,

well then at least you can go out knowing you somehow magically arranged for an elephant taking a gargantuan dump to be on the front page of Insiders for 36 hours (and running). Good show mate, cheers .

brightlybob, I so appreciate your humor my friend! I'd be in stitches over this post if the site wasn't so frustrating! I have completely given up trying to post from my iPad, as I had the same maddening experiences. Keep the faith buddy, hopefully logic will be restored some time soon and things will begin to work again.